This is a reoccurring dream I have where I discover that I have a lot of small animals (usually gerbils or fish) that I've forgotten about. I haven't cleaned or fed them in a very long time. When I remember about them, I find that instead of dying, they've multiplied. Last night I had this dream with some strange twists to it. First of all, the dream was semi-lucid. Second of all, it involved rats. In other words, even though I know it's just a dream, the animals are getting bigger. I was cleaning my rats when I realized that there were a lot more of them. There were around 16 of them, all stuffed into the cage which meant that some would be females. I picked up an especially soft black rat and did a gender check on her. She was a girl. I definitely needed another cage. I went into the basement to get another cage. There were lots of cages and aquarium down here and all of them were full of animals. I had fish in fish tanks, gerbils and rats in cages. &